Anselm Croze & Kitengela Glass, Kenya

You’ll find the glass production facility Kitengela Hot Glass (@kitengelahotglass) when travelling north on the African continent up to Kenya.

This innovative facility was established by Anselm Croze. Inspired by Nani, his mother, who worked with stained glass, Croze was encouraged to find out about molten glass. He went to Holland after his education to understand glass making with Willem and Bernard Heesen (@bernard_heesen) in the early 1990s.

During this apprenticeship, he fell in love with the frustrating, challenging and deeply satisfying process of glass blowing and returned to Kenya, all fired up to set up the craft and East Africa's first glassblowing company – Kitengela Hot Glass.

Distinctive in spirit and design, Kitengela Hot Glass is located on the edge of the Kenyan wilderness, fifty minutes from the Nairobi city centre. People come from all over the world to visit, drawn by the magical and antique art of glassblowing.

Travel down onto the plains across rutted roads through scrubland and a ravine and you will be transported into another space and time.

+254 722 523284 anselm@kitengela.com www.kitengela.com

No (r)Egrets (2022)

Recycled glass, wrought iron

H:25 W:10 D:12cm